Ideas for cat hair?

Anybody have any ideas on keeping cat hair out of the tank? This just seems a bit much to me....lol.



So anyway...on a serious note. I'm ready to water test the tank! I resealed it and obviously painted my blue background on. So...soon I will start putting in water! Yay!

(Just a note...I will put the lid on so the cat won't get in it then....lol)

This is actually a real problem, not matter how tight a lid I have an how much I clean myself before doing tank work CAT HAIR ALWAYS GETS IN, I swear cat hair has a mind of its own

Ah, I see that’s a catfish.......








Sorry, could not resist

SorryEh said:

This is actually a real problem, not matter how tight a lid I have an how much I clean myself before doing tank work CAT HAIR ALWAYS GETS IN, I swear cat hair has a mind of its own

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I don't have many problems with my smaller tanks, but then again they are almost completely covered with just a small notch on one side cut out to run an air line and cord for a heater. They are run on sponge filters only.

This tank will have 2 aquaclears and of course...the cat in the tank will be jumping on it...not that I want her to, but not much I can do really. Oh well. We will see how it goes!

cowgirluntamed said:

I don't have many problems with my smaller tanks, but then again they are almost completely covered with just a small notch on one side cut out to run an air line and cord for a heater. They are run on sponge filters only.

This tank will have 2 aquaclears and of course...the cat in the tank will be jumping on it...not that I want her to, but not much I can do really. Oh well. We will see how it goes!

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The hair that floats around in the air likes to get stuck to my wet arm then I put it in the tank and it swims free The aqua clears are nice because I can see the hair when it gets stuck onto the intake

Heres an idea.

Take 1 electric razor and apply to cat.



No more hair LOL.

How to get your skin torn open in one easy step!

cowgirluntamed said:

Anybody have any ideas on keeping cat hair out of the tank? This just seems a bit much to me....lol.

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lol great picture but you're doing it wrong. The tank is meant to be full of water for catfish.

Sorry I kept birds & dogs

On a serious note, an enclosed hood or a hood with some flywire netting would help keep the fur out of the tank and good fitting coverglass help too

as for Chinese hairless cats, damn they are ugly.

I want one now.

it will eat your penguin avatar Nick

Colin_T said:

as for Chinese hairless cats, damn they are ugly.

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*pedant alert!!!*

There is no such thing as a Chinese hairless, in either cats or dogs.

The hairless cat breed is the Sphynx, which sounds Egyptian, but was developed in the US.

There are two breeds of 'hairless' dog; the Mexican Hairless and the Chinese Crested; both have a small amount of hair on the head, tail and legs though, they're not completely bald.

Badly bred Chinese Crested certainly do win a lot of 'ugliest dog' competitions, but to be fair to the breeders, genes for hair often also affect the teeth, so they can end up a bit wonky! A good Chinese Crested is a very lovely dog, and I have a very soft spot for 'powder puffs', which is a Chinese Crested, but with hair. There's a folk story that says there's a powder puff born in every litter, to keep the others warm

I'm not a fan of the Sphynx cat though, it just looks wrong to me, and I'm not sure it's fair to deprive a cat of its whiskers.

Colin_T said:

lol great picture but you're doing it wrong. The tank is meant to be full of water for catfish.

Sorry I kept birds & dogs

On a serious note, an enclosed hood or a hood with some flywire netting would help keep the fur out of the tank and good fitting coverglass help too

as for Chinese hairless cats, damn they are ugly.

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I have 3 cats and 2 dogs inside. They may not have long hair (Moe is the longest haired of them all. Lol), but they sure shed tons anyway!

I bought a glass lid for this so now worries there. Hair is a part of life for me. I meant this post, well, the pictures as just a cute thing to post because it was funny. She just jumped in there and sat down looking around. Lol. I thought I would share it.

Mostly my tank is ready to be water tested since I resealed it. I'm sort of skeptical on a couple of places so we shall see how it goes! (Only the 2nd time I've resealed a tank). Hopefully I won't have to redo it!

There is a lady local to us who collects it and uses it to make things which she sells at fairs. I have a RagaMuffin and will soon have a Ragdoll (previously had a Persian) so I am one of her top suppliers - don't think she's sussed that sometimes she gets Labrador hair in there as well .

As for the tank I attach a surface skimmer and / or water polisher (both of the homemade soda bottle / airpump variety for a couple of hours each week.

Gratuitous pic of Siouxsie

Seangee, why is there a man perving at your cat's butt?

cowgirluntamed said:

I have 3 cats and 2 dogs inside. They may not have long hair (Moe is the longest haired of them all. Lol), but they sure shed tons anyway!

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Speaking of shedding, my kelpie x use to develop a beautiful winter coat and each spring I would groom her at the dog park. At the end of the combing session there was a hair outline of a dog, like the chalk outline on cop shows when they mark out a body.

When strangers came to the park and asked what it was we said a dog got eaten by a bird and that was all that's left.

The hair outline would be there for a week or so while all the local birds came and took it for their nests